CS 230 Fall 2006                                                Assignment 8 – More Sub Procedures and Function Procedures                            100 points

Assigned: 10/25/2006

Due: Fri 11/03/2006 at the start of class (Note, we will have a new assignment for lab on 11/2)

Pre-Lab (Do Before Lab):  Bring a new disk. Plan out tasks, objects, and events needed for program. Plan out major pseudocode. Put some thought into this. The more clever you are, the less code you will write on this assignment.

Main Assignment:

E-Tunes Inc is working on a new program in conjunction with the new “pay for music” era. Your program is a simplification dealing with customer billing. The program should get from the user the number of songs “streamed” (played on-line without saving) and number downloaded (saved to disk). The program should have buttons to allow 3 different calculations – one for if the customer is a “premium” customer, one for if they are a regular customer, and one for if they are a “basic” customer. For pricing details, see below. The program should call a function procedure to handle validation of inputs, and function(s) to calculate the cost if the inputs are valid.  The program should also have a button to allow the user to explore “what-if” – to see what their activity would cost under all 3 plans. This button’s processing should include calling the same procedures and functions as the individual calculations!! (hence an advantage for using procedures/ functions!!!)  Display the appropriate answers in labels or text boxes (locked of course).  Provide capabilities for the four calculation options, plus to clear the input and output to start again, and to exit.

This assignment is intentionally designed to reward use of procedures and functions. You must write some sub procedures and function procedures for this assignment (and use them!)

Hand in:

• Floppy disk or CD with an entire folder containing all files related to the project.  Please set the name of the project to something other than the default name (WindowsApplication1, …). Use Windows to copy the whole folder, instead of trying to “Save As”.
• Print out of your code.

Miscellaneous:

• You must turn on Option Explicit and Option Strict.
• Note that we have now covered specifying how many decimal places to display – display a number appropriate for the results, which for money should be currency with 2 decimal places.
• For validation, let’s assume that number of downloads should be positive or zero and no more than 1000, and number of songs listened to via streaming should be positive or zero and no more than 15000 (constant, nonstop 24/7 listening assuming songs 3 minutes on average).  Do validation using function(s).  You ought to be able to write one function that can handle any and all validation.
• Use symbolic constants for all constant information (e.g. prices, thresholds, boundaries, …)
• You must pass parameters to procedures and functions. Your validation procedure(s) go to effort to get info out of text boxes, don’t make your functions do it again!

• The schedule for monthly cost is as follows:

                “Basic” customer

· Base monthly cost - $5 – always, no matter use

· First 200 songs streamed “free” (included in monthly fee)

· Additional songs streamed - $0.10 each

· First 10 songs downloaded “free” (included in monthly fee)

· Additional songs downloaded - $2.00 each

                “Regular” customer

· Base monthly cost - $10 – always, no matter use

· First 400 songs streamed “free” (included in monthly fee)

· Additional songs streamed - $0.05 each

· First 20 songs downloaded “free” (included in monthly fee)

· Additional songs downloaded - $1.00 each

                “Premium” customer

· Base monthly cost - $25 – always, no matter use

· First 1000 songs streamed “free” (included in monthly fee)

· Additional songs streamed - $0.03 each

· First 50 songs downloaded “free” (included in monthly fee)

· Additional songs downloaded - $0.50 each

• MAKE SURE YOUR PROGRAM WORKS! (i.e. gets the correct answers). Now that our program is branching and looping, we need to try more examples to make sure they work. Think, “what different possibilities need to be checked?” For each, calculate the correct answer by hand and see if your program gets it!
• Put YOUR NAME, e-mail address, date, and purpose of the program in comments at the beginning of the program.
• You MUST include comments that explain your program in order to get full credit.
• Remember to use meaningful variable names, and indent to show the structure of the program (VB usually does this correctly).
• Put your name on the form as a Label or as part of the form title.
• Try to use good user interface design. Make clear what user needs to do and what the answers mean.